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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
A frequent aesthetic facial request is the desire to reduce full or round cheeks. The most recognized procedure to do so is the well known buccal lipectomy. While removal of this encapsulated cheek fat is effective it is not a complete cheek reduction procedure. Tbere are other subcutaneous cheek areas around the buccal fat area Read More…
Cheekbone reductions are typically done by a bone repositioning technique. Using an osteotomy cut through the main body of the zygoma done intraorally and an external skin approach to a bone cut through the posterior zygomatic arch, the entire cheek bone is moved inward. The analogy I often make is that it is like taking Read More…
Making the cheeks less full or slimmer typically refers to reduction of the soft tissue trampoline area of the midface. Sandwiched between the cheekbones and the bony jawline are the soft tissues of the cheek which are suspended like a trampoline between these bony attachments. The only tissue removal that can be done in the Read More…
Background: V line and cheekbone reduction surgeries today are well known facial reduction/reshaping procedures. They have their origins in Asia where they are commonly performed and is very popular amongst young patients. But just like facial implant augmentations where the result can be seen to be too much, facial bone reductions can also end up Read More…
Reshaping of the soft tissue of the cheek for a less full or thinner facal appearance has long been the promise of the buccal lipectomy procedure. While effective for some patients the procedure is often misused with the belief that will it affect the entire cheek/midface region from the bony cheeks down to the jawline. Read More…
The only effective technique for narrowing the cheeks are reduction osteotomies. By moving in the anterior cheekbone proper combined with relocation of the tail of the zygomatic arch at its temporal attachment allows the width of the cheekbones to be reduced reduced. While highly effective a well known sequelae of this surgery is some degree Read More…
Reshaping the full or round cheek area is most commonly treated by a buccal lipectomy. This now popular procedure, performed intraorally and with a very low rate of any complications, has often misunderstood aesthetic effects. It has its effects in the upper cheek which is defined by what lies north of a line drawn between Read More…
Background: Reductive soft tissue cheek procedures historically consist of the well known buccal lipectomy. While commonly performed its anatomic location and the extent of its effect on the midface is often under appreciated. When taken in the context of the trampoline concept of the midface, the buccal lipectomy is not a comprehensive cheek thinning/reductive procedure. Read More…
The shape of the cheek area of the midface is influenced by a variety of anatomic structures, all of which are soft tissue in composition. This soft tissue makeup varies based on which level of the cheek one is addressing in what I refer to as the trampoline area, which is the soft tissue that Read More…
Background: While the cheeks are generally perceived as a mound-like shape of varying sizes below and to the side of the eye, it is anatomically more complex. It is a horizontally oriented bone where its main mass, the zygomatic body, serves as the interface between the orbital and sinus cavities and where three of the Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...